I suspect that there are a number of members of the AAP that would prefer to indicate their disapproval by simply not 'signing on' ... I think it is safe to assume that silence is disapproval.
Dana L. Roth Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125 626-395-6423 fax 626-792-7540 dzr...@library.caltech.edu http://library.caltech.edu/collections/chemistry.htm -----Original Message----- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Andrew A. Adams Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 6:18 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: MIT Press does not support Research Works Act Perhaps those of us with contacts in other academic presses (particularly the major ones such as Oxford, Cambridge, Chicago...) could press their contacts to push for a disavowal from there, as well. They might also look at how such AAP lobbying and press releases is working in so diametrically opposed a fashion to parts of their interests (though I understand that such organisations have multiple facets and why MIT Press feels unable to drop its membership over this particular individual issue). -- Professor Andrew A Adams a...@meiji.ac.jp Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/ _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
